So about half way done with this (given that it's only 50 floors currently) and aside the graphic of the weapon you'll obtain, seems the main "staying power" is that your Weapon/Armor only has a CHANCE to upgrade, so while you can go in and reset progress and so on so forth, there's actual level requirements of your gear before it lets you into the next branch (11/21/31/41) so you'll actually benefit from resetting progress and farming the "Easy" floors (1-20) to power up some if you get unlucky on RNG.

Otherwise, they weren't kidding when they said it's extremely easy, especially if you get nice poma drops out of red chests (lust for succubus which gives Vuln stacks on the boss/mobs up to 5 making them basically wet paper.) but it does get slightly tougher on the 20+ floors because due to some bugs, some enemies actually can one shot you with their moves, for example slimes can self-destruct doing 2-4k damage to everyone.

Also, the music is randomly pulled music from all instances in the game, there's only 2 "Deep Dungeon" tracks, the Lobby Music as we're calling it and the "necromancer" music.

I read on the OFs that it's harder to solo and a cakewalk in a group, so just curious.

I think I'll like it. This content obviously wasn't meant to be part of the endgame scene -- similar to Aquapolis, I think this is meant to be stress-free content that groups of friends can do on jobs that aren't leveled or geared for raids (or even high-level dungeons).

If going in with two or three people makes it more engaging than four, then I'll like it even more.

First round I did 1-50 with a set 4, now trying 1-50 doing "matched party". Haven't tried solo yet but I think I might for my alt to see how it is. The way mobs work inside are kind of weird...like, they do scale up eventually but if you get "Pox" status effect you're as good as dead unless you have purity pomas lol.

They just made it a bit too RNG in the sense you need to get your weapon and armor to +30 to use the ilvl235 weapon, but the silver chest will or will not upgrade it, so it's essentially an extension of Aquapolis.

Ended up getting 292k or so exp, I have to look back on my videos to really see. So it's actually a fair bit of exp you can get. Main reward though is the 3 tomes you get (Poetic/Eso/Lore) so if anything, you can do it for some quick tomes lol.

So about half way done with this (given that it's only 50 floors currently) and aside the graphic of the weapon you'll obtain, seems the main "staying power" is that your Weapon/Armor only has a CHANCE to upgrade, so while you can go in and reset progress and so on so forth, there's actual level requirements of your gear before it lets you into the next branch (11/21/31/41) so you'll actually benefit from resetting progress and farming the "Easy" floors (1-20) to power up some if you get unlucky on RNG.

Otherwise, they weren't kidding when they said it's extremely easy, especially if you get nice poma drops out of red chests (lust for succubus which gives Vuln stacks on the boss/mobs up to 5 making them basically wet paper.) but it does get slightly tougher on the 20+ floors because due to some bugs, some enemies actually can one shot you with their moves, for example slimes can self-destruct doing 2-4k damage to everyone.

Also, the music is randomly pulled music from all instances in the game, there's only 2 "Deep Dungeon" tracks, the Lobby Music as we're calling it and the "necromancer" music.

Well I haven't seen all videos possible but it does appear easy on the surface. I was hoping it would be harder with pulling mechanics being a defining factor in it being easier or harder. I would like to see more movement in combat. Are there diverse mechanics? What type of progression, horizontal or vertical? Was it fun?

This video of Deep Dungeons seems very barebones, almost like leveling an open world monster.. I haven't seen a boss video mind you,

Still playing ESO and here is a content it has which is the closest thing to a Deep Dungeon type thing.

In terms of difficulty they already said the first what was it 100 floors? would be easy, but that getting to 200 is something not everyone will be able to do because it will be hard. It would have been cool to have more floors already from the start imo, but I guess it is a good thing that they only added 50 in the sense that now they can take the feedback they get from it and hopefully adjust the coming floors somewhat. I agree specifically with different objectives other than "kill the mobs" being a good start.

One thing I am wondering about. In FFXI for the most part content was made for groups, but if you were good enough you could do it in smaller groups or even solo. The good thing about that was that you got more of a challenge and often a different way of playing it, but it was also a good way to earn more rewards. If something dropped it was yours, not something you had to split etc. Now it might be slower, but when it came to content you can only do once a week or NMs that are rare etc doing something more slowly wasn't really an issue. I am wondering, what is the point of soloing deepest dungeon? I see a lot of people talking about it, but so far I don't see the point other than it being more difficult and no real point in doing it. I don't know how the system works as I have not tried it yet so I could be entirely wrong though.

Various the various tier require your weapon and armor to be certain levels before you can enter. To enter floors 31-40 your gear has to be at least level 8, and to do 41-50 it has to be at least level 12. When I beat 31-40 my weapon was level 14 but my armor was only 11. OK, so go back and do 31-40 again for some more leveling up, right?

WRONG! You can't go back. You have to start over from floor 1. Problem is that the higher level your gear is the less likely you are to get an upgrade on lower floors. I started over, and out of 10 silver coffers so far I've gotten ZERO upgrades. I just need one more **** armor level! How the **** am I supposed to improve my gear if my only option is to run content that won't improve my gear!?

Various the various tier require your weapon and armor to be certain levels before you can enter. To enter floors 31-40 your gear has to be at least level 8, and to do 41-50 it has to be at least level 12. When I beat 31-40 my weapon was level 14 but my armor was only 11. OK, so go back and do 31-40 again for some more leveling up, right?

WRONG! You can't go back. You have to start over from floor 1. Problem is that the higher level your gear is the less likely you are to get an upgrade on lower floors. I started over, and out of 10 silver coffers so far I've gotten ZERO upgrades. I just need one more **** armor level! How the **** am I supposed to improve my gear if my only option is to run content that won't improve my gear!?

There's a cap on the lower floors so you can't just spam floors 1-10 to get your weapon/armor up to 30.

Yep, they blocked it mainly so you don't choose 41-50 and spam for the Shards which thus inflates the Materia Tier V market (sicne minion and mount isn't sellable) and you tend to get the best Silver Chest upgrades on 31-50.

So at the risk of "being called out" or whatever, no matter how much **** I get for saying XI is better in terms of design, it really is. Look at Nyzul Isle, if you have completed Data you can choose whatever floor and even drag people in with you, THEY just won't get clear credit if it's above their current data save. Why not..copy that idea?

I'm not sure if its LESS likely as such as it is you can't actually get gear upgrades if it's sync'd. For example on my 2nd set to 30 I was syncd on floor 1-10 and popped 12 silver chests (drops from monsters too) and not a single upgrade, BUT everyone in that run actually capped off for the next set of floors as Silver Chests can "HQ" and you gain 3-4 levels from 1.

So the system itself, as always, has great potential, but it seems like they purposefully...ruin it in some way to kill the desire to actually want to invest it. Just let me choose the range that ACTUALLY benefits me, yes it will lessen the player pool because no one will want to keep resetting data and redoing floor 1-10 or 1-30 if they don't have to but 31-50 is the only way to reliably get beyond 21 on the gear/weapon.

Nope, do the whole thing, or not at all. Having a top-heavy participation environment is worse than having a slightly lesser full-game environment.

That said, it's not as if the lesser floors are all that hard to blow through. This would be a thing if say, you were waiting fifteen minutes on a queue to get in, but it's neigh instantaneous on DPS thanks to the no-job checking - which actually makes for some interesting lower floor runs.

Also, even if you cap, you may still advance your weapon on the lower floors, the chance is reduced depending on how over the cap you are. It's also less repetition than memorizing an EX fight and getting the execution down, and more variable at that. I'll take the easy yet RNG dungeon over the exact same fight over and over again hoping for a drop on a i235 weapon.

As far as as "Nyzule did it better." I can't agree entirely. Nyzul was a slog. The slower pacing of the game dragged the randomized content on. Not that I wouldn't mind the addition of objectives - that idea is still solid. But to say in general that it was better designed? It still suffered from many of the same flaws XI in general did (no duty finder for one). In addition to its own repetitiveness, Nyzul also lacks the mechanics Deep Dungeon has in terms of traps and area-altering items. So at best I'd say they're about equal.

Did this with a few FC mates last night. Cleared floor 20, and we're going back in tonight to continue our progress.

Gotta say, I don't see the hate. The early floors were easy but progress is clearly getting more difficult, and I understand there's a penalty for death which makes being cautious of traps worthwhile (a trap + wrongly timed hit could lead to death, even on a sub-20 floor). I like the chest layouts and the ongoing decision of whether to move on or explore. And I really like how the floors are random.

I looked forward to this being content that would easily bring people together (something that raid content largely fails to do), and to that end, this seems successful. Again, two of the people in my FC group last night aren't in my weekly raid static, so I'd otherwise not do much with them -- and already, we've adventured together. I like the option to try it solo or just go in with one or two other people for an added challenge.

This feels entirely different than leveling dungeons, which are honestly just as scripted as endgame raids.

Excited to see how SE builds on this. If the difficulty progresses according to how it has been, then I think everyone should be happy with floors 100 to 200. In the meantime, this content was never intended to be a part of XIV's endgame, and it's good at being what it is -- solid casual content with a few worthwhile rewards (and the ability level up jobs or farm tomes) while breaking away from the norm.

Room for improvement? Always and with everything.

EDIT: I also don't understand the love affair with Nyzul Isle... and I'm not talking about on here as much as I am the official forums. I agree with Hyrist on Nyzul, too... it was a slog in XI with just a handful of "objectives" that really only helped to gate out new people and encourage people to form statics... and XIV already has enough content like that.

But as BrokenFox says below, there is plenty of room here for this content to be fleshed out -- which is why I'm calling it a success. Unlike the first go-round of Diadem, SE has implemented a worthwhile content system that many players are already enjoying. Diadem was populated for a few weeks not because it was in any way fun, but because it was an irresistible loot pinata. Deep Dungeon is being played for many reasons -- for farming tomes, for leveling, for mounts, for weapons -- and it's already way more engaging than Diadem ever was.

Tons of great infrastructure here for SE to build on not only in the short term, but across expansions for years to come.

I remember not too long someone said exactly this and proceeded to get torn apart simply because it wasn't content that person personally liked ..

The problem is, if you're late in your weapon progression, it's virtually no chance at all unless it's a 0.x% or 1% chance (I and many others keeping data have yet to see a level up once your weapon and armor are 27+ on floor 1-30), it's not simply reduced. It's not that it's hard, there's literally no benefit to redoing it once you're nearing the end of your weapon because the exp bonus for leveling a new job isn't that great as of yet so once your tomes are capped off, you're basically going to start running into:

"Quick Run"

People that will make things aggravating because they want to get back to the set of floors that will actually progress them. So using it as an alternative to regular leveling dungeons, go for it, but majority of people are going to use "Matched Party" for at least 1 slot (don't even try solo, you're not getting anywhere over floor 20 unless you have ungodly luck.)

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Did this with a few FC mates last night. Cleared floor 20, and we're going back in tonight to continue our progress.

Gotta say, I don't see the hate.

As said, once you complete your first run and your weapon/armor no longer levels until the last 2 set of floors or even complete your first weapon, you'll understand better where a lot of people are coming from. It's not even just me, a lot of people said that's their main problem with the system, so no one really "hates" it, it's just a VERY common sense quality of life function that almost every other MMO has because when you're grinding the same set of floors 5+ times to no benefit, that gets repitious far quicker than an ex primals, because sooner or later your tomes will cap out so you're literally only doing it for 1-2k+ until the final 20 floors. At least with ex primals you're gaining weapons for desynth, synthesis materials or mounts lol. Heck even Shards are abysmal drop rates outside of the final boss so can't even really grind it for that.

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Excited to see how SE builds on this. If the difficulty progresses according to how it has been, then I think everyone should be happy with floors 100 to 200. In the meantime, this content was never intended to be a part of XIV's endgame

Funnily enough, it's quite the opposite. Unless they change how they handle data, people are actually worried about floors 100+ because you'll have to start from 1 again to progress upwards to 100 so if you happen to wipe on 99..guess what no one will want to do? Especially if they are actually challenging...it would hit people harder than A6S where you have to start the entire raid over if you mess up 1 mechanic and cause a wipe. The system is fine for what it is, that's just a very glaring problem. If there were more to floor 1-30 it wouldn't be too bad, but as more and more people start hitting that point it'll start showing up a lot more on community forums.

Heck the VERY FIRST complaint about it was how you could literally end 1-10 and not be able to do floor 11 because you didn't get enough silver chests and have to redo it again - No matter how you slice it, that is a problem that can and will turn people off. I'm not even saying that's a bad thing, but it's just those little things they should have looked at because I know a lot of people who wiped on floor 39 no want to even try the content again when they realized they have to start from 1 each time they clear 50. Having floor selection is perfectly fine, because every other content that is "tiered" lets you select, i.e Alexander, Coil (as of now) and Primals. I don't care about how easy it is, it just feels like something is really off with the "end-game" of it, since grinding isn't even the problem, it would be cool if regrinding 1-30 actually offered something you know?

Funnily enough, it's quite the opposite. Unless they change how they handle data, people are actually worried about floors 100+ because you'll have to start from 1 again to progress upwards to 100 so if you happen to wipe on 99..guess what no one will want to do?

I'm sure that's why Yoshi-P says reaching floor 200 will be something that not everyone can or will want to do.

Personally, though, I vastly prefer content like this that doesn't follow a script and can be tackled in much smaller groups. And as Hyrist said, eventually we'll reach a point where people's aether gear is ranked up high enough to just blow through all the lower levels, so zipping from floors 1 through 50 won't be much of a chore for people who are intense enough to want to go all the way.

I'm excited to see how this evolves. Again, this is light years better than the state of Diadem when it launched. SE is on the right track.

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I don't care about how easy it is, it just feels like something is really off with the "end-game" of it, since grinding isn't even the problem, it would be cool if regrinding 1-30 actually offered something you know?

You at least get tomes and exp, right? We got tomes just from doing floors 1-20 yesterday. I did it on a level 60 job though, so didn't get to see what the exp gain would have been.

Yeah as said I like the system, it just really seems the "end-game" of it needs to change especially once we're 200 floors deep and it potentially has the setup/purpose (an alternate weapon/armor) it's just going to be so, so, so, SO very hard to want to push through it if you wipe on 199 and have to go back from 1 lol.

You do indeed get tomes and gil, which is why I said once you've capped those out (takes into consideration if you have access to eso/lore as well) you're basically just doing it to get back to the higher floors as possible.

And main reason I say Nyzul is better, is largely because it was designed with the foresight that people will be grinding earlier floors again for various reasons (i.e armor drops) and they could have switched up the floors to at least have puzzles or something. Even in XI while some of the "puzzles" in dungeons were as basic as it gets...it at least had that element there. Especially given the lore and the place it is you'd assume there'd be at least some puzzle/trap floors you have to navigate through rather than a slaughter fest lol.

Especially given the lore and the place it is you'd assume there'd be at least some puzzle/trap floors you have to navigate through rather than a slaughter fest lol.

Seems like the gimmick here isn't going to be set floor objectives (activate all lamps). Rather, it's going to be holding onto your items for as long as you can until you're really at risk and need to use them to avoid getting killed (the secondary gimmick perhaps being opportune times to use fortune items to increase certain drop rates).

Basically, you can use your items to get out of trouble or cancel out some RNG. And eventually making these decisions as a group may become more critical.

Yeah as said I like the system, it just really seems the "end-game" of it needs to change especially once we're 200 floors deep and it potentially has the setup/purpose (an alternate weapon/armor) it's just going to be so, so, so, SO very hard to want to push through it if you wipe on 199 and have to go back from 1 lol.

I don't think wiping reset all your progress. IIRC, after my aforementioned solo loss on floor 20 I was still saved to floor 11. I'd have to do 11-20 again, but not restart all the way from 1.

Whew, I just deleted a doozy of a rant. Let's just call it a fundamental disagreement and leave it at that, alright?

There's much in this game that needs to be addressed, but the idea of it pushing people back to the first floors? I don't think is the issue here. There should be more incentive on the first 30 floors for people coming back. Say, with a sort of currency...

Like the one they instituted that has Tier V materia in it.

If anything, expand upon that to keep those trying to progress interested in the progression process. Otherwise, no. Quick runs is an eventuality. Depth of content is something everyone wants for every piece of content and is a major FFXIV criticism. (I'd say they should slow down power-creep patches and focus more on other reward systems to keep players and endgamers playing, but that's just me.) So it's a moot point to say such here, on what is effectively the content's introduction for newbies.

And, as a speculation, I think we're going to see a hard 'checkpoint' on every 50 floors or so, that someone can just begin their progress at those points. You're pretty much guaranteed to hit 60 before floor 50, so level growth on the other floors, unless it hard resets after 50, won't be a factor. And if it hard resets, it's likely going to be a checkpoint anyways.

Yeah, that's the biggest issue since going back the first set of floors for no upgrade (or low to the point you're better off hoping Tier V materia drops from trash mobs as you'd sooner see that than your 20+ set upgrading) will eventually shift that set of content in a direction a lot of people usually hate (Quick Runs) because as said, something "for newbies" will eventually become not as newbie friendly fairly quickly (already on my 2nd weapon, so I know if there's a certain group of people pushing through it you'll start seeing them shortly as you can only queue up to 4, so that kind of makes it perfect DF fodder.)

The drop rate on Potsherds is so absurdly low though people didn't know they existed outside of floor 50 which is why you had people saying you have to clear floor 50 at minimum 15 times (if you didn't check database sites) so once we got a few out of brown chests in the so lovingly dubbed Owlmino **** time house on floor 25, it was surprising. That too brings up the fact they knew through testing that players wouldn't get anything for going back to earlier floors while getting back to the final 20 that will actually upgrade you, so they could have at least adjusted bonuses or added special flags when 2 or more people with level 20+ weapon/armor enters there's a higher chance to get shards or something. The system for that is already in place, as 1 or more people who completed high tier raids removes loot, so the reverse is more than possible.

As for your speculation, it depends if they actually put that care into the system, because it sadly feels like something that will drop off until 3.5 when they need to throw in another quick catch up ilvl piece of gear for people who don't want to fight the primal or raid of that patch. The main thing to take into consideration is they introduced an ilvl 235 weapon in the same cycle that already has an easy to obtain ilvl235 weapon, yet as I've said months ago and thus predicted this, when they introduce something of the same or better ilvl with better stats, that's where people will flood to regardless of content quality, and that's usually when things tend to take a direction change, look how bad Diadem got when BiS 210 pieces were discovered from coming out of it.

So realistically, that's exactly the change I was talking about and why it should have worked closer to Nyzul. I've already cleared 50, I should be able to choose a set of my liking, when you add 150 more floors, no one is going to scale from 1-200 each time because it's VERY unlikely they'll guarantee any actual rewards for doing so because that's just not how yoshi rolls, at least not without weekly investments of at minimum 4-7 weeks, but as said (even by SE), PoTD is kinda really bugged currently (nothing to the point it doesn't function) so who knows, maybe there's actually stuff not even working that we've yet to see.

And while I'm almost 100% positive it's just a design decision, but bosses dropping nothing..is just so weird to me in content you progress.

Well, I did this a bit today and so far I don't hate it, but there is clear room for improvement. First, I did 1-30, but due to some very stupid people we ended up wiping on floor 29. I wiped my data and started over (my weapon was a bit low so I figured I might as well work on it a bit). I went through the first two sections pretty quickly and then kept going and finished off level floor 50. It actually is very easy as long as people are all on the same page. The only problem I had was with a group that wanted to clear every room when we just didn't have the time.

After the first clear, there are a few things I'd like to see change. First, just killing X number of mobs until the warp opens up is a bit too simplistic, there really needs to be more to it than that. I'd love to see some variance in mob type per floor. You really only get your seven to ten types per floor. Despite the different layouts, it's pretty much the exact same thing on each floor. Maybe add gates so you can't go back to certain areas or having some branching path mechanic and your choices affect which boss you get. That will cause some story line issues on floor 50, but I'm sure the could work something out.

Also, forcing a reset I can live with, but the low chance of getting upgrades on lower floors is a problem. If I have to go back and start over from the beginning I want to get something for my efforts. Sure I can get tomes from it, but I only really need Eso, and the lower floors are pretty **** stingy on that front.

Well I beat floor 50 and I'm only 14/15 on my gear. There were NO silver chests at all in that 41-50 climb (well, there was one but it exploded so it doesn't really count.) Unfortunately given the incredible annoyance of RNG, combined with the fact that you have to do the lower floors over and over again for minimal reward, I see myself getting bored with this VERY quickly.

I just wish the lower floors did SOMETHING at higher gear levels. Even if they just made the bosses drop a chest with guaranteed upgrade. At least then I wouldn't feel like I'm just wasting my time.

So here's some ******** right here. If you wipe, you don't keep any of the upgrades to your armor that you get along the way. I was just in a pretty terribly put together party with two tanks and two DDs. We actually made it floor 49, but wiped due to a bad pull. I had gotten five ******* upgrades to my armor and weapons out of that run, and now they're gone. I'm starting not like this more and more. It's bad enough I have to grind out the first thirty **** floors before I can even get an upgrade to stick, but taking them away if we **** up is just a slap in the face.

So here's some ******** right here. If you wipe, you don't keep any of the upgrades to your armor that you get along the way. I was just in a pretty terribly put together party with two tanks and two DDs. We actually made it floor 49, but wiped due to a bad pull. I had gotten five ******* upgrades to my armor and weapons out of that run, and now they're gone.

I don't have a problem with that part actually. It's annoying if you wipe and lose the upgrades, but that's the risk involved. At least you don't have to start all the way over from floor 1 when you wipe.

I don't think you can do that. I don't think there's a way to leave early and keep your upgrades. IIRC progress doesn't actually save until you beat a boss and officially complete the floor set (at which point you can't redo it without starting over.)

I imagine once more levels are a thing, there'll be shortcut items added that'll let you start at 50 or whatever as long as you'd beaten the level. Nonetheless, the cost will probably be prohibitive enough that you'd probably want to start over from time to time. But like others have said, it's not perfect, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

We use 2 slots - We save the first slot to 41-50 then start our second slot and burn through that THEN go to the first slot and burn through 41-50 in order to keep our upgrades actually progressing so that way we always have another run of high floors ready to go shortly after beating 50.

We use 2 slots - We save the first slot to 41-50 then start our second slot and burn through that THEN go to the first slot and burn through 41-50 in order to keep our upgrades actually progressing so that way we always have another run of high floors ready to go shortly after beating 50.

Just curious, Hio... but why are you doing this content so hard?

Not trying to bring up the same old thing, but genuinely curious because I figured you already had every variation of Nidhogg weapon and can't imagine you'd have much use for an i235 weapon.

We use 2 slots - We save the first slot to 41-50 then start our second slot and burn through that THEN go to the first slot and burn through 41-50 in order to keep our upgrades actually progressing so that way we always have another run of high floors ready to go shortly after beating 50.

Just curious, Hio... but why are you doing this content so hard?

Not trying to bring up the same old thing, but genuinely curious because I figured you already had every variation of Nidhogg weapon and can't imagine you'd have much use for an i235 weapon.

Well since it's not really that hard of a content set mostly gathering the potsherds more than anything but the weapons will most likely be used down the line and a few of them are actually better stat combos (for what its worth) than a few of the Nidhogg weapons. I mostly did the nidhogg weapons for glamour more than anything but a few were good for my off jobs since itd be a slight waste to upgrade lore weapons for alt jobs and I dont really dig the relic quest in this game.

My main has a midas weapon so it doesnt have a use but with the way Yoshi tend to be all over the place it's just a good idea to "complete" this content to see where it goes. It paid off farming 100+ tokens of every newer Ex primal so..never know.

It paid off farming 100+ tokens of every newer Ex primal so..never know.

:O

Yep, was the fastest way to cap Eso (and later Lore) plus desynth weapons, so storing the tokens seems to eventually let you get the primal birds. So if they really do expand this system to be a bit...more, I'd rather have at least a few weapons ready to go out the gate as the next round will obviously be a set of armor or at least 1 piece of armor.

Yep, just read the Japanese response to that, it's largely because people have been starting to purposefully wipe 41-50 runs if they don't get as many upgrades as they hoped for. So it's definitely good they're looking into it.

So I finished it today and I found it extremely underwhelming. Not that I was expecting Nyzul (a concept I hated) but something more than "kill a lot of enemies over a small area". It was good to have a nod towards Tam Tara Hard, but in the end I don't see the point of repeating this just for a weapon (much like the dungeons, to be honest). Just to get to the second set of floors I had to repeat the first run five times...No way I'm going to touch it ever again.

I do like how it's a fairly good way of leveling. It gives exp similar to leveling roulette, and while you don't get the exp from kills like you would in a normal dungeon, you can do it multiple times a day and it has (for now anyway) near instant queues, even for DPS jobs.

Just to get to the second set of floors I had to repeat the first run five times...No way I'm going to touch it ever again.

What, were you soloing and getting killed by bees? Soloing is meant to be challenge mode, you know. There's no actual reason to solo other than for the "glory", much like 2nd coil savage.

It takes a party of four very very special people to possibly lose on 1-10. Like, they have to be trying to wipe. And right now, people are only trying to wipe on 41-50 >_>

Edited, Jul 24th 2016 8:08pm by Fynlar

Technically, Yoshi stated you can actually go in Solo OR with up to 4 players and "get on a leaderboard" if you go in solo, so it wasn't actually meant as a "challenge mode" in that sense, but more of a "challenge" between players to see who gets on top of the leaderboards similar to how The Feast is nothing different PvP wise other than having actual rankings. Something clearly lost in translation from early interviews lol.

Like I always say, people don't ever want to believe me when I say it's extremely possible for people to just...utterly fail at existence until it happens to them. With the way the rng works, it's extremely possible to wipe on 1-10 simply because all it takes is a landmine+monster auto attack or exploding silver chest combo, even on 1-10.

...and I'm officially sick of doing this. My last run through 1-50, I managed a staggering one upgrade to my weapon. That was my sixth time through the place. It's bad enough that you get zero upgrades from 1-40, but then you finally get to 41-50 and half the chests explode, and the half that don't, half of those don't give upgrades. I'm not touching this again until after the update. Hopefully, they'll do what the promised and make it less of pain in the ***.

It takes a party of four very very special people to possibly lose on 1-10. Like, they have to be trying to wipe. And right now, people are only trying to wipe on 41-50 >_>

Edited, Jul 24th 2016 8:08pm by Fynlar

Where did I say I died? Hasty assumptions, I see. I simply didn't get enough aetherpool upgrades to let me pass to the second set of floors. And that's why I'm saying I'll never do that again. Much like the dungeons and the tomes, it requires constant repetition.

Where did I say I died? Hasty assumptions, I see. I simply didn't get enough aetherpool upgrades to let me pass to the second set of floors. And that's why I'm saying I'll never do that again. Much like the dungeons and the tomes, it requires constant repetition.

That's actually a pretty reasonable assumption. The alternative, that it actually took five clears to get your gear to +2, is mindbogglingly insane, bordering on impossible.